Chapter 138 Daddy Is Back to Open
Luo Yuan took out a purse from his arms and handed it to Chen Afu. The bag contained ninety-six taels of silver. Among them, ninety taels are design fees and six taels are manual fees.
He also said that Luo Guangui also gave several bolts of silk and satin, a dozen bolts of fine cloth and velvet, and some embroidery thread. These were not only materials for designing clothes and making dolls, but also materials for making clothes for little girls. When Chen Afu returned home with these materials, the carriage was pulled home for her.
The winter days were short and it was already dark at Youshi. Chen Afu returned home from get off work in a carriage with Dabao, two dogs and two birds.
She first went to the new hospital to put away the ingredients, and then went to the old hospital.
Mrs. Wang has already put the rice on the table.
Chen Afu gave Wang five taels of silver and asked her to transfer one tael to Gao.
Mrs. Wang said, "Agui's wife is very good, hard-working and studious. She has helped my mother with many things. Just give her twenty taels of silver. My mother only needs two taels. Ah Fu should also want two taels. You can do those things too." , and most of them were cut by you.”
Chen Afu shook his head and said, "My mother has been an embroiderer, so she should know how big the difference is between doing complicated embroidery work and doing simple embroidery work. She used to embroider day and night, and only earned a few hundred yuan a month. Give my sister-in-law a tael. The money is considered to be high. My brother will settle the score so that he won't be hurt in the future. If my mother feels sorry for her, I will take her out and take more money from her future work. As for me, I will get more. Two taels of handicraft money, let’s consider that money as mother’s wages for making clothes for Sister Yan.”
Most of the task of making clothes for Miss Chu was given to Wang. Last month, Wang took time to work with Chen Afu to make two sets of coats, two cotton pajamas, and two pairs of cotton slippers for the little girl.
Mrs. Wang said, "You just said that you want your brothers to settle the accounts. Why do you pay me so much for those clothes?"
Chen Afu smiled and said, "The rest is my filial piety to my mother."
After hearing this, Mrs. Wang smiled and put away the five taels of silver.
Chen Ming joked, "Juan Niang is becoming more and more capable now, and she actually earns five taels of silver in a month. It's not like me, who is busy every day and doesn't even earn a penny."
The whole family laughed.
The night is getting darker and the snowflakes are getting bigger and bigger.
Seven or eight people on horseback came to the gate of Tangyuan. A man dismounted and knocked on the door, shouting, "Open the door quickly, the uncle is back."
A voice came from the door, "Coming, coming."
The door opened and several people walked in.
Chu Lingxuan, who was tired of work, went directly to the room to take a shower, and walked quickly to the backyard without caring about eating. When I met Manager Luo who came over after hearing the news, he said, "Uncle Luo, wait a minute, I'll go see Yan'er first."
At this time, his daughter should be getting ready for bed, but he was still anxious to see her.
He pushed open the bedroom door, and a warm breath and a faint green fragrance hit his face. He saw his daughter standing in the middle of the room holding a big swallow doll, staring at him with big black grape eyes.
The daughter's black hair was spread down, with a crimson ribbon tied at the hairline and tied into a small butterfly flower on one side of her head. Wearing an ankle-length Yang Fei-colored cotton coat and a pair of strange Yang Fei-colored cotton slippers. The same cat face is sewn on the chest and upper, which is strange and beautiful.
I haven't seen her for nearly a month. My daughter has grown taller. It seems that her eyes are a little brighter than before, and she is... more beautiful.
Chu Lingxuan walked over and knelt down, looked at her pretty little face and smiled, "How did my daughter know that daddy was back and waiting here?"
"Sound...sound." Chu Hanyan whispered.
This was the first time that his daughter answered his question so clearly, and Chu Lingxuan was overjoyed. He picked her up and said, "Yan'er heard daddy's footsteps, so she's waiting for daddy here?"
Chu Hanyan did not answer this time. She patted the little swallow doll in her hand and carried it on her back, "Little swallow, wear floral clothes and come here in spring... Swallow said that spring... is more beautiful."
Although her eyes were only looking at the doll and not at him, he knew that this was something his daughter recited to him specifically.
He was so surprised that he was stunned for a moment before he came to his senses and said, "My daughter is so capable, but she can even recite... uh, can recite articles."
"Aunt... said, carry it, dad... is... happy to hear it." Chu Hanyan said stuttering.
"Dad heard that, he is so happy." Chu Lingxuan said hurriedly.
His voice was trembling with excitement. He once thought that he would hide his daughter in another courtyard for the rest of his life, and her daughter would be so foolish and foolish all her life. Unexpectedly, my daughter could recite nursery rhymes and communicate with him.
As the woman said, her daughter is smart. It's just that she has to get out of her own world...
Chu Hanyan seemed to be encouraged, and she kept up her efforts, and retorted stumblingly, "Little rabbit...be good, open the door...don't open it, don't open it, when daddy comes back...open it..."
The sound of the last word was still lingering.
What is this thing carrying? Chu Lingxuan's eyes widened.
The nursery rhyme "Little Swallow" is pretty normal, but this nursery rhyme "Little Rabbit" is so, so funny.
Chu Lingxuan laughed. After laughing, he was stunned. He laughed so happily, probably before anything happened at home, right?
It was the first time that Chu Hanyan saw her father smiling like this, and she also grinned.
Chu Lingxuan smiled proudly and said, "My daughter is so kind. She doesn't open the door for others, only for daddy."
Chu Hanyan added, "The big bad wolf... won't open."
Big bad wolf?
Although Chu Lingxuan was somewhat puzzled, he felt extremely relieved. He held his daughter and sat on the edge of the bed, and said a few words to her. Although he was the one who mainly said it, his daughter would occasionally say one or two words, which was something he had never dared to think about before.
Chu Hanyan's eyes began to sleep, and Song's mother came over to take her, pulled off her long pajamas, untied the hairband on her hair, and put her on the bed.
Chu Lingxuan walked out of the bedroom quietly after seeing his daughter fall asleep with the swallow doll in her arms.
He came to the living room and listened to Song's mother's report on her daughter's daily life. He knew that the strange clothes and shoes of his daughter were made by Chen Afu, called auspicious cat pajamas and auspicious cat cotton slippers, and his daughter liked them very much. He also said that his daughter could play with other children now, and recited "children's songs" very seriously every day, wanting to recite them to her father...
Chu Lingxuan walked on the road in a happy mood, with the corners of his lips hooked up.
When he returned to the outer study, the table was already filled with wine and food. He drank while listening to Manager Luo's report on his daughter's situation and Tangyuan's affairs.
Although he thought Chen Afu's teaching method was very strange, it was undeniably very practical.
When he heard that when Chu Hanyan went to Chen Afu's house for the first time, Manager Luo brought so many people to serve her, causing a lot of trouble for her family for a whole day, and frightened Chen Afu so much that she dared not rest anymore, he couldn't help laughing again.